Process for fabricating a field-effect transistor device implemented on a network of vertical nanowires, the resulting transistor device, an electronic device comprising such transistor devices and a processor comprising at least one such device

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Description

The present invention relates to a process for fabricating a field-effect transistor device implemented on a network of vertical nanowires, including a plurality of elementary transistors.

TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION

Each elementary transistor comprising a source electrode and a drain electrode each positioned at one end of a vertical nanowire of the network and connected by a channel and each elementary transistor including a gate electrode surrounding each vertical nanowire of the network, the drain, source and gate electrodes of the elementary transistors implemented on the nanowires are respectively connected to each other so as to form unique drain ,source and gate electrodes of the transistor device

DEVELOPMENT STAGE

This process has been successfully implemented on a matrix of 650 nanowires with gate length of 15nM and with electricals results at the state of the art.

BENEFITS

The invention therefore aims to significantly simplify the fabrication of the transistor devices implemented on a network of vertical nanowires, to be able to decrease their dimensions to nanoscale regimes and to minimize the access resistances of the source and drain areas as well as the overlap capacitances. The invention therefore aims to propose transistors having a low access resistance as well as low overlap capacitances.

INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS

These elementary transistor devices (nFET and pFET) can for example be used to produce logic circuits, such as CMOS inverters. According to other alternatives, these electronic devices belong to the group consisting of a CMOS inverter, a multiplexer, a volatile memory, a non-volatile memory, a device for detecting gases or biochemical agents. A processor according to the invention includes at least one electronic device as previously described.